Recapish

The
Binghamton Rumble Ponies hit Trenton this week with a chance to gain some
ground on the division leading Thunder, but they dropped the rubber match
Thursday to fall three games out of first place. Bingo starter Blake Beavan
struggled to keep runners off the bases all night, while the Ponies bats
struggled to get anything going most of the night.

Luis
Guillorme started the night with a double to center field, his eighth of the
season, but was stranded at second base in the frame.

Beavan
was in trouble from the start, allowing a leadoff triple to Thairo Estrada in
the 1st as Trenton jumped ahead 2-0 in the frame. Mark Payton tagged
up and went to second on an RBI sac fly from Mike Ford, which allowed him to
score the second run of the inning on a two out single from Zack Zehner.

Billy
Fleming led off the 2nd with a single for Trenton, but the Ponies
turned a 5-4-3 double play in the frame to erase him on the bases.

David
Thompson and Patrick Biondi connected for back-to-back singles leading off the
3rd, but again Bingo failed to even advance them during the inning.

Miguel
Andujar made it 3-0 with a solo blast in the Thunder half of the 3rd.

After
three scoreless innings from their starter Yefry Ramirez, Trenton brought in
Nestor Cortes for the final six innings of the game. The Ponies were able to
break through against Cortes in the 4th, but overall he turned in a nice
outing for Trenton (6 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 4 K: 1 BB).

Matt Oberste singled Kevin Taylor
(walk) to third in the 4th inning, and then Taylor came home on a
groundout to put the Ponies on the scoreboard.

The
Rumble Ponies put together one last hoorah in the 6th, but it only tied
things up for a few minutes. Tomas Nido sparked the rally with a leadoff single
and then went to third on Cody Decker’s seventh double of the year. Nido came
home on a Taylor RBI single, but Decker came home on a double play grounder, which
took the air out of the inning.

Ford
led off the Thunder 6th with his eleventh double of the year, went
to third on a sac bunt, and then scored on a sac fly to put Trenton back on top
4-3.

The
Thunder added on against a wild Scarlyn Reyes in the 7th, pushing
their lead to 6-3 before Kelly Secrest came in to clean things up. Secrest
allowed three base runners over his 1.2 IP, but he stranded those three plus an
inherited runner to keep things close. Unfortunately, the Rumble Ponies offense
was out of hits for the night, as Cortes retired the final eleven Binghamton
batters of the game for the win.

After
falling to three games behind the Thunder, the Rumble Ponies headed back to Binghamton
to open a weekend series with the Portland Sea Dogs (23-26). Mickey Jannis
(3-1, 3.86 ERA) is currently the scheduled starter for Binghamton in the
opener, which has a game time of 7:05 PM, and he’s due to square off against
Teddy Stankiewicz (2-2, 3.56 ERA).